rubrication

This was soon abandoned, with spaces being left for rubrication to be added by hand.

The term rubrication comes from the Latin rubrico, "to color red".

Rube: A country person, unsophisticated in the ways of rubrication.

Rubrication Headings in red, capitals touched with a yellow wash.

This is analogous to the writing of these instructions in red in some rubrication conventions.

Written notations of purchase and rubrication dates, however, lead scholars to believe that the books had been printed later.

The Gothic-character text leaves spaces with guide letters for initial capitals, whose rubrication was later added by hand.

Copies left the Gutenberg workshop unbound, without decoration, and for the most part without rubrication.

Later medieval practitioners extended the practice of rubrication to include the use of other colors of ink besides red.

In many other cases, the initial scribe also held the position of rubricator, and so he applied rubrication as needed without the use of annotations.

Indented spaces with small guide-letters have been left for the illumination or rubrication of initial capitals, never executed in this copy.

Rubrication affected how later generations read and interpreted a text, and this process helped ensure editorial standardization throughout Western Europe.

Without decoration, except a typographic leaf, initial letters, and rubrication, the book is an austere and handsome quarto.

This particular type of rubrication is similar to flourishing, wherein red ink is used to style a leading character with artistic loops and swirls.

To 'miniate' originally meant to use minium or red lead (usually mixed with, e.g., egg white and water) for rubrication and illumination.

Important feasts in liturgical calendars were also often rubricated, and rubrication can indicate how scribes viewed the importance of different parts of their text.

Practitioners of rubrication, so-called rubricators, were specialized scribes who received text from the manuscript's original scribe and supplemented it with additional text in red ink for emphasis.

The volume is the work of seven scribes, the last of whom was responsible only for the colophon at the end of the volume, the running heads, and the rubrication.

The pilcrow was a type of rubrication used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of visually discrete paragraphs was commonplace.

In the early days of movable type, some printers tried to preserve the manuscript traditions of illumination (ornate decoration) and rubrication (the addition of headings, usually in red).

Initially the rubrics - the headings before each book of the Bible - were printed, but this experiment was quickly abandoned, and gaps were left for rubrication to be added by hand.

Moreover, the 'paraph' also could be marked with a full-height, cents-like sign or with a double Slash (punctuation), originally symbols indicating a note from the scribe to the rubrication.

Rubrication may also be used to emphasize the starting character of a canto or other division of text; this was often important because manuscripts often consist of multiple works in a single bound volume.

As mentioned above, the initial scribe of a text often left notes for the rubricator of where rubrication would be necessary, a fact that helps the modern historian learn of the provenance of the manuscript.

In these, red letters were used to highlight initial capitals (particularly of psalms), section headings and names of religious significance, a practice known as rubrication, which was a separate stage in the production of a manuscript.